Men would not live long in society, were they not the mutual dupes of each other. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)
I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go. – Mikhail Baryshnikov